News of Lin Zuhui's interview spread in Hong Kong and immediately aroused heated discussions.
"Lin Sheng is really humble. If I were at his age and achieved such success, I'm afraid even Li Chaoren and the charter king would look down on me!"
"Work hard, wait for the opportunity, seize the opportunity and wait for luck! Classic, starting from tomorrow, I will work hard to make money and save money. When the opportunity comes in the future, I will have the capital to seize it, and then become rich."
"With long-term investment in big hotels, does that mean there won't be fierce takeover battles?"
"Lin Sheng respects the Kadoorie family very much. He doesn't make excessive demands, nor is he arrogant because of it."
For a time, the small Xiangjiang spread Lin Zuhui's "good reputation".
Kadoorie family.
The three Kadoories also fell into deep thought, wondering whether Lin Zuhui really had no intention of taking control of the hotel.
Mi Gao said: "How about we cooperate with Lin Zuhui like the Liang family!" But because he had met Lin Zuhui once, he had some good feelings in his heart and believed Lin Zuhui's "sweet words".
"No! Hu Tu, the Liang family is nothing more than a dog, but Lin Zuhui is a wolf and a tiger. How can we safely work with him? It's easy to drive away a dog, but how difficult it is to drive away a wolf or a tiger!
Therefore, we can not buy stocks in the market for the time being, after all, we will not be able to get funds for a while, but we must not let Cathay City join the board of directors!" Rowlands warned his son.
"Yes, father!" Mi Gao said helplessly.
In fact, Mi Gao has been in dire straits in the past two days. All the family funds have been allocated to investing in electricity, and there is not much money to be mobilized at all! If the family had sufficient liquidity, they would not have reduced their holdings in the hotel to a maximum of more than 20%.
Go invest in electricity.
As for bank loans, the Kadoorie family has also borrowed a lot for electricity. In addition, it will not be able to raise funds for a while, so it will take some preparation time.
Soon, the Kadoorie family decided not to borrow heavily and acquire individual stocks from the market; instead, they would only use the family's working capital to make small-batch acquisitions. After all, if the move is large, the stock price will rise, and the cost will be unacceptably high.
In fact, what they don't know is that this is Lin Zuhui's strategy to make his enemies relax their vigilance and prevent the Kadoorie family from purchasing hotel shares from the market at low prices.
Once the hotel's stock price skyrockets, if the Kadoorie family continues to buy it, it will consume a lot of money; whether they buy it or not, it will be beneficial to Lin Zuhui.
Jews are indeed very powerful in business, but Chinese businessmen are not weak either. The Chinese are even better in IQ and strategy.
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Monday.
Lin Zuhui came to the office of Cathay City. Cathay City is currently giving Lin Zuhui a headache. The debt is as high as 2 billion, and the annual interest is 200 million.
At present, Cathay City is divided into four parts of assets: Furama Hotel, Grand Hotel, rental properties worth 400 million, and investment of 900 million blue-chip stocks with a deposit of 300 million.
Annual profits are extremely unstable. Furama Hotel and Grand Hotel are both listed companies, and dividends need to be determined by the board of directors every year; especially for large hotels, Cathay City does not even sit on the board of directors.
The last time the six banks were willing to lend money, it was because of the joint guarantee of Lin Zuhui and New Era Real Estate, and they promised to mortgage this part of the shares to the six banks after acquiring 31% of the shares of the hotel, and to release Lin Zuhui's personal guarantee.
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The six banking syndicates even investigated Cathay City's finances thoroughly. When they learned that Cathay City had invested 900 million in blue chip stocks, they all recorded it. In other words, if the stock market goes wrong, the six banking syndicates may force Cathay City to repay its debts in advance.
After a while, Lu Donglai, the general manager of Cathay City, came to Lin Zuhui’s office.
"The shares of Grand Hotel have grown very well, and we have begun to scan the market. Last week, we bought shares of Grand Hotel worth 10 million yuan, with an average price of 54 yuan!"
Lin Zuhui nodded. Cathay City originally had 50 million yuan in liquidity in its account. He directly asked the securities company to provide leverage and directly enlarged it to 150 million yuan to scan the market for goods.
"There is no need to worry too much about the securities market. We just need to vigorously sweep the goods. In just one month, the hotel will definitely rise to a sky-high price of 80 yuan. And the Kadoorie family's desire to increase their stock holdings in the market is undoubtedly nonsense!
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At this time, the smaller the equity stake of Kadoorie, the better, so that the voting rights at the shareholders' meeting will be smaller.
You know, Lin Zuhui predicted that the voting rights of both parties at the shareholders' meeting should be very close;
Therefore, every reduction in the voting power of the Kadoorie family is crucial.
The current Kadoorie family is like a tiger without teeth and claws, which is suitable for training.
Lu Donglai continued: "Then do I need to make an appointment with Michael Kadoorie for you? As a rule, we will send three directors!"
Lin Zuhui waved his hand and said: "Don't rush it now, we'll talk about it next week! We should focus on other things. The matter of the big hotel needs to be done step by step, there is no rush!"
Lu Donglai nodded and reported again: "The finances of Furama Hotel have been audited, and the maximum dividend this year is 30 million."
Lin Zuhui said without hesitation: "Then pay dividends according to this number!"
Don't leave too much money to the Furama management, so as not to give them too much power; without money, they can't make waves. Moreover, the Furama Hotel will be renovated in two years, so there is no need to invest too much now.
, just maintain the status quo.
"Okay, I'll make arrangements!"
After Lu Donglai left, Lin Zuhui leaned back on the chair.
At this time, he seemed to understand the Kadoorie family's choice, which was to prevent Lin Zuhui from entering the board of directors, so Lin Zuhui could only focus on the shareholders' meeting in May.
Of course, you must not lose the public opinion work you should do, and express your goodwill in the media regularly to win the approval of investors. Not only that, you also have to talk to some Chinese shareholders of big hotels and promote yourself.
Seek support from everyone.
If he wants to win the support of shareholders, Lin Zuhui must not show that he will split up the hotel and real estate business of Grand Hotel, otherwise he will definitely be spurned by shareholders.
If he really becomes the chairman of the board of directors of the Grand Hotel, he will have to split up the hotel and real estate business sooner or later. After all, the former Kadoorie family hurriedly split up the hotel and real estate business of the Grand Hotel after they first held on to the Grand Hotel.
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Their idea is to keep the hotel business first, and the real estate business can be secondary.
"I believe that with my performance, I will be able to impress many Chinese shareholders!"
"The Kadoorie family! I wanted to express goodwill, but since you insist on being against me, I have no choice but to take over this asset."
In fact, Lin Zuhui has already made up his mind to win the Peninsula Hotel.
In his previous life, the Mandarin Oriental hotel brand was famous all over the world, but the Peninsula Hotel had always been stuck in its ways. This was something that Lin Zuhui couldn't stand.
He will not be short of money in the future, but he will be short of a hotel brand with cultural heritage and history; so once Lin Zuhui gets the Peninsula Hotel brand, he will be able to open 2,030 five-star Peninsula hotels around the world in the future, and they will all be self-owned.
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At the same time, we can also authorize the management of ‘Peninsula Hotels’ and franchise dozens of them, making this brand a globally renowned brand such as ‘Hilton’ and ‘Sheraton’.